Most external hard drives sold as of September 2012 come preformatted and ready to use. However, there may be times when you'll need to initialize an external hard drive, either because the drive was ...

Ok I have 2 firewire Maxtor hard drives. One is a 120GB 5000DV and the other is a 200GB 5000DV. The 200Gb is the new one. The formatting on the 120 is MAC OS Standard. And the formatting on the new ...

Beating my head against this one. I've just bought four different HGST 3.5" SATA drives, in 3 different sizes from 2 different vendors. I can't get any of them to initialize. The problems I'm having ...

This guide walks you through steps to help you mirror the Boot Hard drive on Windows (Legacy or UEFI). This is useful when the primary hard drive fails and will help you boot from the secondary drive.

If your Hard drive does not show up on the boot menu in Windows 11/10, you can try our recommended solutions below, which are listed in no particular order, and see if that helps to resolve the issue.